Blotter: Man found dead in Highland identified

Man found dead in Highland identified

A man found dead Monday night outside an apartment complex in east Shreveport has been identified as Christopher Jamison Williams, 27.

The sound of a gunshot reportedly was heard by residents near Oak Meadows Apartments in the 1900 block of Centenary Boulevard just before 11 p.m. Monday. Patrol officers found Williams lying on the ground with what appeared to be a single gunshot wound to the head.

Anyone with information should call Shreveport-Caddo Crime Stoppers at (318) 673-7373 or visit its website at lockemup.org.

Pair sought in Texas death nabbed in S.C.

TYLER, Texas - A couple sought in the killing of a Weatherford, Texas, man whose dismembered body was pulled from Cross Lake near the Interstate 220 bridge in Shreveport in late May have been arrested in South Carolina.

Brandon Daniels, 30, and Damonica Evans, 25, were being held Tuesday in the Florence County Jail in South Carolina. They're charged with capital murder and aggravated robbery, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports.

Authorities found less than 5 percent of the remains of 53-year-old Marion Lee Brown, along with personal effects such as clothing and a watch, in a piece of smoldering carpet on a road in Smith County, Texas, about 81 miles from Shreveport. Later the same day, a 2010 Toyota FJ Cruiser registered to Brown was discovered engulfed in flames off Lavender Road north of Interstate 20, roughly 15 miles west of where the carpet was found. Brown's body was pulled from Cross Lake the next day.

Authorities believe Daniels and Evans dumped Brown's remains as they traveled to South Carolina, where Daniels has relatives. And Evans has posed as an escort meeting with clients who then are robbed, police say.

Coushatta man also faces murder charge

A Gibson County judge found probable cause Monday to charge Claude Arender, 53, with murder in the shooting death Friday of Raheim Bright, 21, of Vincennes. The Coushatta man remains jailed without bond and still faces the original charge of voluntary manslaughter.

Arender's son initially told police the gun went off when Arender struck Bright in the head with it several times, prosecutor Robert Krieg said. But an autopsy concludes that Bright died from a single gunshot to the rear of his head and that the cause of death was homicide.

Trucker accused of kidnapping woman

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - A long-haul truck driver from California is in custody in New Mexico for allegedly kidnapping a woman he met June 13 in Shreveport.

William Joseph Taylor, 54, of Oroville, is being held on suspicion of kidnapping and assault with intent to commit a violent felony.

Las Cruces police say a 49-year-old woman entered a store Thursday and asked a clerk to call 911. The woman told police she had been held against her will for at least a day.

She reportedly knew Taylor through her husband, who's incarcerated in another state. Authorities say Taylor met the woman in Shreveport and offered her a ride.

Taylor allegedly bound the woman's hands and feet with duct tape so she couldn't leave. She escaped from the rig Thursday while Taylor slept.

Texan gets jail for passing bogus cash

TYLER, Texas - A North Texas man who meticulously made and spent more than $400,000 in fake money in Texas and Louisiana has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison.

A federal judge in Tyler sentenced Cloyd Ray Knight III, 58, of Arlington, on Tuesday in a case involving bogus $100 bills. Knight, who would use the counterfeit bills to buy goods and receive legitimate cash as change, must serve 69 months behind bars.

Since 2004, prosecutors say, Knight developed a counterfeiting process that included using newspaper print paper, painting the paper with acrylic, printing simulated watermarks and security threads on the paper and spraying the fake notes with a dulling coat.

Knight pleaded guilty in May 2013 to passing counterfeit bills. He fled but was captured in January.

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Blotter: Man found dead in Highland identified

Also, a pair sought in connection with the slaying of man whose body was found in Cross Lake is nabbed in South Carolina; a Coushatta man charged with voluntary manslaughter in connection with a